Brussels, 06/02/2006 (Agence Europe) - Eurydice, the European education information unit, has published, with the support of the European Union, a study on the teaching of foreign languages, “Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) at School in Europe”. This study draws up an initial balance sheet of CLIL teaching establishments in 30 European countries. This kind of teaching allows for some subjects, outside of languages lessons, to be taught in a language other than the mainstream curriculum. This novel approach is currently being examined in a number of primary and secondary schools in Europe. The study has illustrated that: 1) initial experiences in CLIL teaching are generally linked to specific situations such as the existence of several official state languages, minority languages or trans-border situations; 2) in most of the countries proposing CLIL teaching, target languages are both foreign languages and regional or minority languages, often a second state language; 3) English, French and German are the most taught foreign languages; 4) subjects taught in CLIL at a secondary school level are left to the countries themselves to choose but around a dozen countries prioritise scientific subjects and social sciences; 5) training in CLIL teaching as part of initial teacher training is being proposed in ten or so countries. The report is available at: (http: //http://www.eurydice.org/Documents/CLIL/fr/FrameSet.htm ).